On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 01:34:04PM -0700, Walter Bright wrote: > On 9/2/2013 7:15 AM, Manu wrote: > >On 2 September 2013 23:50, Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrov...@gmail.com > ><mailto:andrej.mitrov...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > On 9/2/13, Manu <turkey...@gmail.com <mailto:turkey...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > But I still barely see this as an inconvenience when compared > > > to not being able to read a class definition. > > > > How about not being able to read the include paths in VS? I'm > > talking about this: > > > > http://i.stack.imgur.com/0cTZG.png > > > > You can view 2 lines at a time. After almost 20 years they still > > haven't fixed this. Where is their core dev team that should make > > the IDE experience great? > > > > > >Classic. > > It is classic. Scott Meyers did a presentation on that, calling it > the "keyhole" interface, because it shows the view as if you looked > at the data through a keyhole. > > Sometimes I defeat the keyhole by doing a "select all" in it, and > then pasting it into notepad. I do the reverse, too: if the text > entry box is only an inch square (some companies do this), I'll > compose the message in notepad then cut&paste it into the keyhole.
It's things like this "keyhole interface", that caused me to be convinced that the GUI emperor has no clothes, and to turn to CLI-only development. T -- The problem with the world is that everybody else is stupid.